Instrumentalists you can recognize after 6 bars..?


Musicians you can recognize after 6 bars (of music, not pubs) even if you don’t know the piece?

Mine would be

  • Miles Davis
  • Mark Knopfler
  • Pepe Romero
  • Dave Brubeck
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Oops, can't leave out Bill Pitcock IV, the distinctive guitarist in The Dwight Twilley Band, as well as on solo albums by Twilley and the band's drummer Phil Seymour. He got his sound by plugging a Gibson ES335 into a pair of Fender Deluxe Reverb combo amps, an MXR delay between the two. One of my favorite guitarists, he was a 2-pk. a day man (Marlboro Reds), so of course died of lung cancer (in 2011 at the age of 58).

John Bonham

Carlos Santana

The Edge

Thelonious Monk

Chet Atkins

Eddie Van Halen

Django Reinhardt 

 

6 bars is a fairly long space in music.  If it's a solo, who can't you recognize in 6 bars?

Robert Fripp, Keith Moon, Carl Palmer, Frank Zappa, Pat Metheny, Tony Banks, Keith Emerson, Buck Dharma, Jimmy Hendrix, Steve Forbs, Keith Jarrett, ....endless list, as all virtuosos have a specific style, like a voice.